What do you think of Kat’s new single and video, “Had It All?”

And doing good deeds is always in fashion….Star Magazine spies have learned that Katharine has donated her chopped hair to Locks of Love, the organization that makes wigs for children who have lost their own locks due to illness.

“Katharine has wanted to donate her hair for years and she loves her new look,” a tipster tattles.

Katharine’s sophomore album Unbroken hits store shelves in January. Her single ‘Had it All’ is available on iTunes now.

The American Idol Season 5 runner-up, long known for long brunette locks, traded in her brown mane for a bleach blonde rocker look in new promo shots for her upcoming sophomore album, Unbroken — due out October 6.

“My music is a little more edgy so that inspired me to be adventurous.”

“I’ve never dyed my hair before so this was a pretty drastic change,” Katharine reveals in the August 17 issue of PEOPLE. “I’ve always been known as a brunette but I’ve been thinking about it for a long time and it kind of just fit with all of the searching with the music and experimenting that I would do the same thing with my look.”

Do you like Kat’s New Look?

Hey Crunchers, are we buying Katharine McPhee as an actress, or should ole girl stick simply to singing?

The American Idol 5 runner-up, who cut her teeth on last fall’s sorority-themed comedy The House Bunny, was spied on the set of her latest movie, You May Not Kiss The Bride, which is filming in Hawaii this week.

K.P. is co-starring with Dave Annable in the romantic-comedy about an arranged marriage between a mobster’s daughter and a photographer.

Sounds promising….

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Katharine McPhee will guest star as–What Else?–a singer on an April episode of CBS’ forensic crime drama CSI: NY.

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One-time American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee has inked a new recording contract a year after being dropped from RCA Records.

According to Billboard, Katharine, who finished in second place on the fifth season of the hit singing competition, is now under contract with Verve Music Group [VMG].

“The album she is working on will show many new sides to her talents as an interpreter and a songwriter, and show everyone just how special she is,” a rep for VMG said in a statement on Tuesday.

Katharine will make her label debut later this year.

Katharine McPhee and her House Bunny co-stars have released a video for Kat’s single “I Know What Boys Like,” featured in the new movie.

Katharine and actresses Emma Stone, Rumer Willis, and Anna Faris will introduce the video and promote their film on MTV’s Total Request Live this Wednesday.

The House Bunny opens in theaters on Friday.

Songstress turned actress Katharine McPhee was a special guest on Friday’s Live With Regis & Kelly, with Reg’s daughter Joanna sitting in for Kellz. Katharine is currently promoting her new film The House Bunny, co-starring Anna Farris and Rumer Willis.

American Idol Season 5 runner-up Katharine McPhee has recorded a track, entitled “Connected,” that will be featured in the upcoming movie Barbie & The Diamond Castle, coming straight-to-DVD September 9.